At the edge of a new ocean: Post-volcanic evolution of the Palaeogene Kap Dalton Group, East Greenland

Petroleum Geology Conference Proceedings

Volumn 6, Issue 0, 2005, Pages 923-932

  Larsen, M ^a   Heilmann Clausen, C ^b   Piasecki, S ^a   Stemmerik, L ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

East Greenland; Eocene; North Atlantic; Petroleum geology; Post basaltic; Shallow marine; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052545902     PISSN: 20479921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/0060923     Document Type: Conference Paper

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